“danger to the pedestrian traffic,” was the title of the message in the “Tages-Anzeiger” of 4. Of may, 1916. “Special incidents and let the police Board of the city of Zurich, to draw attention to the fact that the Throw away orange and banana peels on roads and Trottoire the pedestrian traffic is at risk, by persons, which are waste on such Fruits, can easily come to the case.”
in order To accidents of this kind to prevent the, going to be the Throw away orange and banana peels and similar Unrates on the streets and in Trottoire on the basis of the municipal act and the General police regulation is prohibited. Non-observance of “police buses”, it was said in the report. On the same day, the NZZ reported the police ban. Who was doing this bad habit in the future guilty, should be reminded “with a salted buses because our roads are not to be regarded as a waste heap.”
accidents
Three weeks later, the Newspapers took up the “bad habit” again. “The prohibition of the continued throwing of orange and banana peels on the road seems to be still not heeded,” said the NZZ. “How little it takes, this is easy to sense a misfortune, showed again yesterday in the Talacker, where an elderly lady in front of a wagon, the road wanted to take on, but on a banana peel ausglitt and fell. The driver managed to bring his trotting horses shortly before the Fallen, so that this with light abrasions and the terror of evil men.”
The Zurich-banana peels-ban seems to have only limited effect. In June 1917, the NZZ defendant “negligently Throw away orange and banana peels”, which had led to two accidents. At the Baden road, a seven-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy were slipping on banana peels and would have been on the edge of the stone is quite heavy abrasions and skin pulled injuries. “The connoisseur of bananas and oranges, should make the obligation, the shells of the fruits are not easy to throw away,” said the newspaper, “but seek you in the street gutters or Dolen. To salute would be, if the city police would be strictly against the Offending action.”
In June 1922 discarded banana peels were once again on the topic. “A bad habit, which may not be enough reprimanded, throwing banana and orange peels on streets and sidewalks,” criticized, in turn, the NZZ. “Apart from the blemish of the road image by this fruit cases, endanger the health and lives of the passers-by this thoughtlessness on a large scale.” The law offered in the Rest of the enough, to pull such a “threat of public transport” due to negligence.
Fatal fall on the stairs
The newspaper asked the teacher urgently, to lead your students “in the full light of the Evil before our eyes”. The city authorities recommended to educate by setting a number of “boxes or baskets at a suitable point the audience to order.” Then the police officers could “without any pity, against any threat to public safety with the act the full Rigour”.
However, the Problem was not, apparently, continue to get a handle on. In October 1928, the media reported again about an accident due to a discarded banana peel. On the Bahnhofstrasse, a young man fell down, he remained unconscious. Even fatal a fall ended on a discarded banana peel in June 1950. A 39-Year-old business house, slipped in the staircase in the inner city so that he suffered a skull fracture.
In the Zurich city archives remained no written document for the banana peels-ban. Also in the police regulation at the time the prohibition was apparently not, as the historian Nicola Behrens from the city archive says. Perhaps it had been in 1916, only a press statement by the police officer. Behrens believed that the ban was imposed, with a view to plant liability in accordance with the Swiss code of obligations. “Perhaps what has happened is a corresponding accident, the city had to pay damages. And, therefore, the police Board has given this concretization of the principle of the avoidance of harm.”
For the curious, keeps historians Behrens the time of the ban – in the middle of the may and in the middle of the First world war. “The supply of tropical fruits is likely to have been in the war much more difficult, so these products are likely to be rare and expensive.”
Today buses of 80 Swiss francs
is Today no explicit reference to the Throw away orange or banana can be found in the General police regulation of the city of shells, such as city police spokesman, Marc Surber says. However, strictly speaking, you could be fined for Ejection of a banana peel. With 80 Swiss francs. In the municipal police regulation, it means: “It is forbidden to contaminate public or private ownership, to alter, or damage it.”
The city police have imposed such fines for Ejection of waste more and more often: in 2017 you asked for the first time, over 300 waste of sinners to the checkout. Whether the policeman is to be imposed in the case of a banana peel really a fine, however, is a matter of discretion, such as Marc Surber says. As with the disposal of cigarette butts. If someone throw deliberately a banana peel on the road and, despite the request not more lift, was a fine more likely than if the contamination is fixed again. As a banana or orange peel belong in the rubbish bin and not just thrown away.
Littering as an “immoral act”
Also, the Zurich cantonal Council dealt recently with the issue of Littering. In its response to a request from the GLP in the member of the Parliament, he stated that Littering was widespread in the last few years, as a social phenomenon. It affects the quality of life and the feeling of safety in the public space and could lead to environmental problems. “Littering is a typical free-rider problem,” wrote the member of the cantonal government. “Any person who operates Littering, benefits from the behavior of others, excluding the own contribution to a proper disposal. In this sense, Littering is an immoral act.”
(Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 28.02.2019, 22:01 Uhr
